In an interview with Inc. magazine, Philippe Kahn related how he launched his software company, Borland International (which is no longer in business), in 1983 by setting up an elaborate scam to deceive an ad salesman. He wanted to stake everything on one full-page ad in Byte magazine but didn't have the money and knew the magazine wouldn't extend credit to a company without customers. So before the ad salesman arrived at his two-…